Beware the Gamma Gaze

This little Sideblog is where I shall keep all of my Comics blogging. Will blog for both DC and Marvel, with a focus on the X-Men. #CyclopsWasRight.

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oh ok

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[wolvierinez]

its so funny to me that cyclops made up a guy named erik the red one time to infiltrate a base and then it turned out later on in the same run there was a guy named erik the red who happened to look like, exactly like that.

[wolvierinez]

Genuinely so funny

[behold-the-basilisk]

You know how every telepath of the Summers lineage is BS OP? This is Scott using up his telepathy. He just manifested this guy, like a tulpa, and that was that.

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happy pride month mutants

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OP disabled reblogs as I was in the middle of writing an extremely long reply and I'd usually let it go but some of these reblogs are spreading active disinformation about the X-Men and y’all know how I feel about that

The idea that Charles Xavier is based on MLK and that Magneto is based on Malcolm X is straight up urban myth.

As originally written by Stan Lee, the X-Men comics have basically nothing to do with social justice or prejudice. The idea of mutants as an oppressed class wasn't introduced until Chris Claremont's run started in 1975, and Claremont has explicitly stated that Professor X and Magneto were based on Israeli political leaders David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin.

As written by Claremont, Charles Xavier is at best deeply misguided, if well-intentioned. He is careless with the safety and feelings of those under his leadership, he is overbearing and hubristic, and he's utterly convinced that he always knows best, to the point of frequently manipulating his students. Magneto, meanwhile, becomes deeply sympathetic, and grows out of his trauma-based revenge spree to become genuinely caring and compassionate.

Comics throughout the 90s and 2000s would continue to paint Professor X as a manipulative jerk, while Magneto would regress and often take on a “realizing he's just as bad as the Nazis" role in his stories. It's around this time that the original FOX X-Men movies came out with wildly different interpretations of the characters and popularized the MLK / Malcolm X idea, with Stan Lee pulling a characteristic, "Totally, that was my idea the whole time, wasn't it genius" shtick.

All of that to say- @shofarsogood’s assessment of the characters is comic-accurate. I have never said, and I am not saying here, that movie adaptations shouldn't deviate from the comics in order to tell interesting and dynamic stories with people from different backgrounds. But I think we all have to be open and honest about those changes from the beginning. Because otherwise you're pulling from source material where your MLK stand-in is brainwashing children or shooting them in the face, while your Malcolm X stand-in is volunteering himself to the authorities to stand trial because he regrets the violent crimes he's committed.

[nitpickspot]

Well they also want an excuse to replace one of the most prominent Jewish characters in comics, so write that down.

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Scott Summers and the perks/drawbacks of being a Goddess's consort

Scott gets weird powers because Fire and Life Incarnate loves Her husband dearly:

Fire does not burn Scott. It actually heals him. He can shove his hand into a fireplace to adjust the wood and only feel warmth. This was discovered after he ran into a burning building to save its occupants expecting to be nearly incinerated in the process. Instead, he walked away with a fresh bruise completely gone. Scott carries a lighter with him at all times and will use it to mend more minor wounds, but anything beyond flesh wounds requires something more intense. It saves a lot of medical supplies, but new team members always get the shock of their lives when Scott comes back from a mission barely hanging on and Illyana chucks him into the incinerator.

Plants do not die around him. They could be left unattended and in unsuitable weather for a very long time and stay stable. Any crops he tends to are more bountiful and grow faster. This is helpful for when he might need to lay low for a while, he can grow food wherever he is and not risk going out in public. It further assists with the Alaska X-Men's produce stall, Glob and Scott become a lot closer as they work together.

Life itself will not allow Scott to die. The moment he should be dead, life force from a future person will be transferred into Scott and he will live again. Who was this future person? What are the implications of this? There is no way of knowing. All that matters is that The Phoenix will not let Her love die and someone else will take on that burden instead. Scott doesn't need to know how it works, only that he will never need to fear a final death again. This life transference does not remove all of his injuries and diseases, though. Only the ones that would be fatal. If an explosion broke his arm and punctured his lung and destroyed his brain, then the lung and brain would be restored but the arm would remain broken. Scott can take on riskier missions and be less conservative in his fighting style because he has a guaranteed chance of survival, but that doesn't mean going on suicide missions every week.

Not every consequence is good though:

He will never be fully satiated. Scott could eat an amount that would make an average person's stomach explode and still feel a bit peckish. Fires require fuel to burn; cosmic recursive hunger permeates his very being. Maybe if he consumed a sun, he could finally feel full. But he won't and so he'll be hungry forever.

Stagnation is the ultimate enemy of creation and destruction; it is the enemy of Her consort too. If his routine and the status of things he cares about are monotonous for too long, it begins to cause him physical pain. Eating his cereal for the 7th morning in a row? He gets a searing headache until he makes eggs. The mutant cause has its wheels stuck in the mud again? Random muscle spasms and nerve pain, better get things moving. Any change can stop the pain: upgrades, side-grades, and downgrades. And regression is often easier than progression. It gets to the point that Scott and those who love him are incentivized towards self-destruction/sabotage just to stop the agony. And for Scott, who thrives on plans and routines, this is far more of a curse than it would be for the average person.

[supermansmeat]

scott it’s me professor x . you have to go to fortnite. with your eye lasers. i don’t care that they’re not lasers. who cares that they’re portals that’s fucking stupid scott. kill people in fornite for me . ok

[wolvierinez]

fanart

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slightly extending the scott presence in uncanny x-men annual #16

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The thing that tips the scale firmly into Scott's court is the prelude to Avengers vs X-Men.

For context: Cable was in the death throes of his Techno-organic virus, and learned that unless something was changed the future was doomed yet again. The reason? The Phoenix Force came to Earth for Hope Summers, and the Avengers took her. This causes the events of Avengers X-Sanction, where he starts hunting the Avengers.

The event ends with Cable losing, the Avengers taking all of the future equipment he used on them, and inadvertently helping set up the events to come. Especially with his final conversation with his father:

Cyclops goes into AvX with certainty from his son's dying wish. He has to make sure Hope bonds with the Phoenix, and that the Avengers cannot take her.

This does not change the inherent irrationality of the rest of the event. Neither Scott nor Steve acted with the good faith they would generally afford the other side, and everyone was a lot more angry and quick to fight than they should have been. But it does mean that Cyclops had a very good reason to be doing this stuff.

[tiffycat]

HES HERE ! HES HERE ! HES HERE !

[redhelmetguy]

Jean Gay or whatever her name is

How did Scott pull her shes so out of his league girl you could do so much better than that loser

(Meant lovingly of course ❤️ he’s my favorite loser and shes my favorite goddess)

Anyway yeah. Took me four hours to draw this I was kinda expecting it to take longer but if I didn’t stop myself I would have never finished

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hey since i'm on the favourite superhero train and it's in Summers-ville, why don't i do what i wanted to do anyways, but never got around to it, and gush about

THE CYCLOPS 2026 SERIES WRITTEN BY ALEX PAKNADEL

i am in goddamn love with this mcheckin series.

hang on hang on i gotta post some panels because gjkasl;gjdfksla; THIS IS WHAT I'VE WANTED. IT'S JUST HIM.

while having a chunk of wood impaled in his side, he not only keeps his head, but also teaches a child probably the most useful mental/emotional trick ever... especially for a mutant living in this horrific world that is the marvel universe.

(Now, bear with me, the adhd is in full swing right now and I'm having brain-translation-organization troubles.) i was like "omg that's what he does! this is how he does it!" Paknadel laid out a specific exercise (that works irl btw. stuff like this is real for centering oneself/focusing/calming down) to explain the Scott Summers brand of stubborn fuck syndrome. Scott's vise-like grip on his mind and faculties has been a comics staple for decades, but the most we ever get that explores what that requires and what it says about a person has been vague shit like 'oh he puts his worries in a box, lalala', moving on immediately afterwards. I cannot articulate how much i adore this and how much this means to me.

The exercise works, Mei can use her superstrength again, and pulls out the 'splinter' (fuckinnNN CHUNK) of wood.

sidenote: thank you Paknadel for addressing the fact that pulling out a huge impaled object is the last thing you want to do under normal circumstances. (since they're no where near any med facility, have to move and potentially fight, AND scott has magical heckin sealant, leaving it in would just cause it to move around and damage even more tissue).

i love this exchange: Mei: "But I wasn't under psychic attack..."

Scott: "Sure, you were. From yourself."

fjsalkf;jdsaklf; SO GOOD FSAJFDS

i'll stop it there for this post even though i want to continue on. Paknadel is fantastic writing Scott again, just like he was in "Eversong", just like I had hoped he'd be. This series is a delight, all the fuckin knowledge and understanding of the history and characters and THEMES surrounding this particular character aaaaaaaaaa.

Go read the Cyclops 2026 mini series. Do it!

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Still can’t believe my goat got such a bangin’ solo this year

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Venom (MJ) Spread commission by Lamelev

for the Cass Anon

[mythomars]

LET IT BE KNOWN I LIKED CYCLOPS PRE MARVEL RIVALS I SWEAR!!!

[the-x-gene]

These suits were the best thing to come out of Morrison era. But the yellow wasn’t cutting it for me.

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Okay, so I am reading this article on why languages die and i wanna talk about marvel's problem with the mutant storylines.

so the article mentions like three stages in which a language is supplanted by a more dominant language: the presence of a new language; the rising bilingualism; the youth's disregard for thew old language. Often when languages are killed off, it is because a negative attitude is associated with the use of the dominated language. Which is a sterile way to say that people are tormented for using their language until they stop.

When the aritcle talks about saving a language, it says that you can't prevent the first stage. You cannot prevent contact. Further, you cannot prevent the negative attitude of the youth to the dominated language once it has set in. The best way to preserve languages is to maintain a so called 'health bilingualism'. Where the two languages are complementary to each other. Both having a different place and use but an equal amount of value is assigned to them by their users.

That is the important part. The language of the community being valued for its connection giving and the buisness language for buisness. Languages are tools.

How does this tie in with the Marvel mutants? Because i want to point out that the stories about the mutants always seem to go down the path where more and more humans fear and hate mutants. I would like a story that is not another massacre, not just more mutant pain or an origin story. I want a story where they get a PR-guy or something.

Not a "let's set up disasters so we can save ppl" story, but a genuine story about any mutant saving someone and it being appreciated. I want a story where there is a friendly neighborhood mutant, or something. Someone who stands up to the little problems and have people stand with them and as a result other mutants. Not because of what those mutants can do for them, but because they are people too.

Twice now i have witnessed the first sentinels confusion by Trasks "protects humans from mutants" because all logic pointed to mutants being humans too.

I think that after all the massacres. We aren't in the second stage anymore. People in the Marvel-verse have grown up with 'being a mutant' being shameful and are showing unwillingness to pass that gene to their children if they had a choice. All parents just want a beter life for their kids.

I think that there is no coming back from that, but i do not believe Magneto to be right as twice I witnessed him introduce mutants to the world at large and both times he was doing a terrible job of getting the mutants across as people, instead of larger than life non-human evils. So yeah.

Their first stage of introduction immediately put shame on the idea of being a mutant. It was salvageble but then nobody salvaged it. The situation just kept getting worse and worse and by the time that anyone tried to salvage it, the idea of mutation was already deemed shameful by so many for so long. Coming back from that is already really really hard if there aren't constant massacres going on.

So yeah; I want a story where things are better. that isn't just meaningless violence and death and pain. I don't know what that would be, but i do believe it possible

What is language death? (Chapter 1) - Language Death

Language Death - November 2014